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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:37:53 +0100 (MET)
From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy <kahl AT informatik DOT uni-kl DOT de>
To: Robert Mark Bram <relaxedrob AT no DOT spam DOT optushome DOT com DOT au>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: IO Redirection
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 Hallo!

 OT, but ...

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> Howdy all!
>
> I have a question about IO redirection.
>
>    > file
>          redirect standard output to file
>    2> file
>          redirect error output to file
>    &> file
>          redirect error and standard output to file
>    >> file
>          append standard output to file
>
> How do I append error output?
> How do I append error and standard output?

 Just as you have written?
 ">>" appends, ">" write to a new file, independend of the file
 or source selected. That is,  "&>>file" appends both.

 Why is that not obvious ?

 Bjoern

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